For body stimuli, fluent apparent motion sequences produced subjectively longer durations than nonfluent sequences of the same objective duration.
The main focus of the analysis was to assess the neural substrate underlying body-specific fluent (and nonfluent) ABM by computing the respective interaction contrasts: (body/fluent > body/nonfluent) > (nonbody/fluent > nonbody/nonfluent) and (body/nonfluent > body/fluent) > (nonbody/nonfluent > nonbody/fluent); for an overview of the results of all contrasts of interest see Table 1.
In the present study, measuring brain activity while viewing such stimuli allowed us to investigate to what extent "visual" and "motor" cortices were involved when reconstructing percepts of fluent body movement from static body stimuli.
Ms Rudner is one of those rare artists who embody the art form they practice: a born dancer, sensuous and infinitely expressive, with a fluent body gifted in feats of multiple coordination, intense focus and effortless control over long, complex phrases of movement.
Any brain regions correlated with this regressor will indicate its increased interaction with the motor cluster for the reconstruction of fluent body movement.
In the case of ABM, motor areas might help to reconstruct fluent body movement by generating movement-related information, despite impoverished visual stimulation (Grosjean et al. 2007; Schutz-Bosbach and Prinz 2007).
You were nervous, but you had already seen a shooting at a park, and the sounds from the anthem of the destruction of black bodies had become fluent to your ears: the percussion of the slide, the base of the hammer, the bang of the bullet, the scratch of the tires, and the horns from the sirens.
Tonya Reiman and Maxine Lucille Fiel do not know much about football, but they are fluent in body language, one of many areas in which the Giants have appeared suspect recently.
We tested whether motor areas that were sensitive to the body-specific temporal bias (Fig. 1C) triggered by ABM showed specific couplings with visual body-specific regions when fluent ABM sequences were presented.
Dogs can indeed understand some verbal language (although they're far more fluent in human body language).
We show that perceptual reconstruction of fluent movement from static body postures does not merely enlist areas traditionally associated with visual body processing, but involves cooperative recruitment of motor areas, consistent with a "motor way of seeing".
